Chatting with Charlie is a podcast where I chat about controversial and stigmatised topics as well as critically analyse things that affect our every day life, such as diet culture. The episodes will be a mixture of interviews, me just chatting and me analysing scientific studies. I will always provide sources in the google docs document if I refer to studies or claim facts.
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I discuss my own disability, what it means to have a chronic illness and a dynamic disability. I take a look at the social model of disability as well as what problems and questions we face daily.
And lastly some tipps how to be polite and not problematic interacting with disabled folks.
21 Sept 2025
Who gets to be disabled enough?
Living with a rare disease means having to face doctors who don’t believe you, regardless of the evidence of suffering , partners who become carers- gradually or suddenly, and the world’s obsession with labels. In this episode I talk about the importance but also -coexisting- unimportance of diagnoses, the role of mental health in chronic illness, and what it means to exist outside the “being- and having to be inspirational” narrative.
Covering:
1. A brief introduction
2. The Online Debate: Who’s “Disabled Enough”?
3. Living the In-Between. Looking to well to be disabled but to disabled to be well.
4. Medicine & Misbelief, struggles with rare diseases — lack of cure or treatment.
5. Personal & Social Dynamics: How relationships shift: partners becoming carers.
6. Rethinking Narratives: Why “inspirational” framing flattens lived experience.
30 Apr 2023
My stay in a psych ward
My stay in a psych ward. The good, the bad and the ugly. How was it really? Also lol sorry my mouth was so dry I feel like you can partly hear it. Hope it doesn’t make it unlistenable lol
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